94 BARTOLOME ESTEBAN The youthful Saint John the Baptist is seated in the wilderness, holding his reed cross MURILLO with his left hand and the Paschal Lamb with his right. The Lamb and the accompanying Spanish, 1617­1682 inscription, Ecce Agnus Dei, which normally appears on the scroll attached to the cross, The Youthful Saint John the derive from the Fourth Gospel (1:36), "And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he [John] Baptist with the Lamb saith, Behold the Lamb of God." The drawing may well have been made for a painting, Pen and brown ink over black chalk possibly one of a series showing different saints and archangels, since a study identical 27.2 x 19.2 cm (10 11/16 x 7 9/16 in.) Cat. Ill, no. 114; 94.GA.79 in style and of about the same size in the British Museum, London, shows the standing figure of the archangel Michael. Like many drawings by Murillo, those in the Getty Museum and in London are identically inscribed, Bartolome Murillo fat (short for faciebat = "made it," a Latin abbreviation commonly found on prints and drawings): it is not a signature, but a note of authorship, written after the artist's death, possibly by his executor. Murillo was one of the leading Spanish painters of the seventeenth century. His mature work is naturalistic and strongly tenebrist in style, partly as a result of the influence of his fellow Sevillian, Diego de Velazquez (1599—1660). In later works Murillo softened his earlier stark chiaroscuro into a warmer, more diffuse kind of illumination. SPANISH SCHOOL 117